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We Move a Lot We move a lot Our commitment to sustainable development THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2 VDV I We move a lot Our contribution to sustainability The public transport sector and the rail freight transport sector are important sustainable development actors in Germany: Each day about 30 million people use the public transport systems in Germany, which corresponds to more than 10 billion passengers per year and which replaces about 20 million drives in the car each day. The rail freight companies of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) transport more than 600 billion tons of freight per year, which reduces the drives in the truck by about 77 000 each day. VDV’s about 600 member companies take every effort to achieve the sustainable devel- opment goals. They also take social and entre- preneurial responsibility for environmental protection, fair and attractive working con- ditions as well as sustainable business. Nine of the 17 SDGs are of particular importance to our sector and we contributed much to achieving these goals already long before the adoption of the 2030 Agenda. Thus, not only climate action (SDG 13), but e.g. also gender equality (SDG 5) and responsible consumption and production (SDG 12) are important goals to our sector. In this publication the VDV gives concrete The public transport sector and the rail freight examples of measures that have been taken transport sector play a key role by the achieve- by VDV member companies or that are going ment of the climate targets. Nevertheless, the to be realised by 2030 in Germany to support transport transition can only succeed if their the sustainable development strategy of the importance is increased even more. It is our Federal Government. These examples are only goal to have increased public transport by a few examples from the broad range of meas- 30 percent and rail freight transport by more ures that have been or are going to be taken than 20 percent by 2030. Such an increase is by our member companies. ambitious and can only be realised if the repre- sentatives of public transport and rail freight transport work consequently towards this goal hand in hand with the political decision- makers. Climate protection is a social challenge and a central sustainable development goal. The focus on sustainable development has in- creased significantly after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations in September 2015 and of Germany‘s National Sustainable Development Strategy in 2016. The 2030 Agenda defines clear fields of action in the form of 17 sustaina- ble development goals (SDGs). IIngongo Wortmann,Woro tmann, President ofof the VDVDVV VDV I We move a lot 3 THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 4 VDV I We move a lot Contents SDG 3: Good health and well-being Page 6–7 Darmstadt: “mobiFit” health management programme for the employees Düsseldorf: “House of fitness for work” – Supporting the work-life balance Frankfurt: Preventing accidents by clearing up SDG 4: Quality education Page 8–9 Leipzig: Promoting lifelong learning Hamburg: Training of refugees Bremen: Promoting training SDG 5: Gender equality Page 10–11 Bremen: Systematic vocational support for women Darmstadt: Women in management positions Berlin: Supporting compatibility of work and family life SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy Page 12–13 Hamburg: Powerbank – Depot exclusively for electric buses Hanover: Zero-emission vision Berlin: Mobility with clean and affordable energy SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth Page 14–15 Bremen: Solutions for job seekers Nuremberg: Macroeconomic benefit by public transport DB: Training and qualification open up perspectives SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure Page 16–17 Berlin: Saving energy within rail freight transport by way of novel products Berlin: Using trend-setting technologies – from online to autonomous Frankfurt: Expanding performance with innovations SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities Page 18–19 Dresden: Sustainable Johannstadt by 2025 Fribourg: Integrating development of public transport into urban development Hamburg: Zero-emission electric buses are coming SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production Page 20–21 Stuttgart: Prolonging the life cycles of LRVs Nuremberg: Sustainable procurement practice DB: Recycling in track construction SDG 13: Climate action Page 22–23 DB: Travelling environment-friendly DB Cargo: Climate protection within rail freight transport Berlin: Light-weight buses Imprint Page 25 Photo sources Page 26 VDV I We move a lot 5 We move a lot – for good health and well-being One of the central concerns of the 2030 Agenda is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Nine targets and four means of implementation detail how this goal, which is partly based on the millennium development goals of the United Nations, is to be achieved. This SDG is of particular importance to the VDV member companies. Three very different examples illustrate the manifoldness of measures taken by the companies to achieve this goal. Darmstadt: “mobiFit” health management The company also subsidizes Weight Watcher programme for the employees courses, which take place in its depot. Moreover, it HEAG mobilo GmbH, the public transport company has set up its own fitness programme, it cooperates in Darmstadt, is convinced that the employees’ with a fitness centre and it offers leasing of a motivation and commitment are essential to its bicycle or an e-bike as a deferred compensation. success. Therefore, the mobility service provider Free influenza vaccinations, frequent health days does not only continuously invest in training of as well as extensive stress analyses complete the its employees, but also supports the physical programme. and mental well-being of its employees within the scope of its “mobiFit” health management pro- The “mobiFit” health management programme gramme, which includes a broad range of offers is firmly integrated into the corporate culture in the fields of nutrition, sport and health care. of HEAG mobilo and is constantly adapted and improved. Thus, e.g. the staff restaurant offers a calorie- reduced “mobiFit” meal. Moreover, free water dis- pensers have been installed at several places. The company also organises action days, at which e.g. fruit is given away to the employees, as well as information events, at which it informs about e.g. “food with shift work”. 6 VDV I We move a lot Düsseldorf: “House of fitness for work” – Frankfurt: Preventing accidents by clearing up Supporting the work-life balance The following always applies: The accident risk is Rheinbahn AG, the public transport company in much lower within public transport than within Düsseldorf, uses its “house of fitness for work” private transport. In 2017 there were more than model, which Prof. Juhani Ilmarinen has developed, 3800 accidents in and around Frankfurt on the in its corporate health management programme. roads and the rails, which cost 17 lives. The acci- Fitness for work means the relationship between a dent statistics of the police say that mobile pho- person’s personal possibilities and the demands on ning and crossing the road at a red pedestrian light him/her in his/her job. This balance is right if the were the most common accident causes beside person performs well and feels well. Many factors drunk driving. Pedestrians and cyclists are often influence a person’s fitness for work, e.g. health, most severely hurt in such accidents because they fitness, competence, attitude, work environment, are the “weakest” traffic participants. management, private environment, society and culture (see below graph). These factors are illus- It is a general goal to minimise the number of trated as floors in the “house of fitness for work”. accidents. Therefore, Verkehrsgesellschaft Frank- furt am Main mbH (VGF) and the road traffic Accordingly, Rheinbahn AG supports its employees’ department of the City of Frankfurt initiated a fitness for work in many different ways. Some text campaign in 2017, which was to increase all measures are to hold cooperation in high esteem, traffic participants’ attention. Posters were hung whereas other measures are to support the employ- up everywhere in the city, in the metro stations ees’ health. Thus, the staff restaurants offer more and tram cars and CityCards were distributed in vegetarian and fresh meals now, and the company bars and clubs to make people sensitive to the risks has equipped a fitness room. The employees are in road traffic. Moreover, video clips were shown also offered various preventive medical check-ups. at the displays of VGF’s more than 600 ticket vend- Other measures like the flyer “Accident? And now?” ing machines and on VGF’s information screens in are to improve the information to and the commu- the metro stations. Further poster actions followed nication with the employees. Finally, the company in 2018 and 2019 to remind people of the message. redesigns its staff portal at present. Short story No. 17: “I only chatted a little on my phone – and overlooked the tram.” Your city traffic VDV I We move a lot 7 We move a lot – for quality education Unlike millennium development goal 2, “Achieve universal primary education”, SDG 4 is based on the concept of lifelong learning. It covers the entire spectrum from early childhood education to training of seniors. Especially the digitalisation of nearly all areas of life and the difficult staff recruiting situation are big challenges to the VDV member companies. To master them, they prioritise education and training. Leipzig: Promoting lifelong learning The demand for qualified staff, their training, in- Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH uses digi- clusive of training of career changers, and lifelong talisation in its participative project “Mobile work learning are challenges to both employer and em- gets digital – Digital work gets mobile”. The drivers ployee. It is a fact that the LVB will have to recruit have been equipped with tablets, have been inter- new staff corresponding to its present size of approx.
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